Re: nohup definition should be changed

[Joerg Wunsch]

As Paul Eggert wrote:

> Yes, but /dev/null has the disadvantage that you can read from it
> and get EOF.  The advantage of redirecting from "/" (or from
> "nohup.out" opened write-only) is that you get an error when you you
> try to read from it (in most environments, anyway).

Assumptions are the root of all evil.

There are enough environments where you can read from "/" (only
writing to it is disallowed), so that's a moot point.  If you need
a /dev/none in addition to /dev/null, standardize one.

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